My hand's up.
Had high hopes that faded after several months of post-op without significant improvement. Much to my surprise and relief, however, after 8 or 9 months the nagging pain and numbness subsided considerably, and after about a year and change the difference was dramatic. It took awhile, but I eventually got almost complete relief.
As an aside, I asked the surgeon to administer only a local. She was adamant that my request couldn't be accommodated, but after my insistence on being able to watch, with my promise that if I yakked or passed out or whatever, she'd have me put under pronto. Of course, that never happened. "Mr. H, you're the first of a couple hundred patients I've done this on who forced me to stop cutting due to a case of the giggles!" She was hot, too.
Get it done. A large % of the procedures produce positive results.
